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The Ponytail Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman /

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This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in sports and society, Broch uncovers this hairstyle's polyvocality and argues that it is a total social phenomenon. B...

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Main Author: Broch, Trygve B. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Cultural Sociology,
Subjects:
Culture.
Ethnology.
Clothing and dress > Social aspects.
Human body in popular culture.
Human body > Social aspects.
Sports > Sociological aspects.
Sociology of Culture.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
Fashion and the Body.
Sociology of the Body.
Sport Sociology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Imagining the ponytail
  • 2. Object
  • 3. Expectations
  • 4. Health
  • 5. Practicalities
  • 6. Movements
  • 7. Experience
  • 8. Charge.

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